One-time Seminole Hard Rock Poker Player of the Year David Prociak continued to dominate the SHRP scene during the early morning hours of Thursday at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Tampa. Prociak, a resident of nearby Orlando, scored an outright win in Event 4 of the property’s Winter Poker Open, a $350 buy-in No Limit Hold’em Re-Entry tournament. For the impressive feat, he was rewarded with $40,787 and, remarkably, his seventh SHRP trophy.

The tournament drew a big field of 546 entries generating a total prize pool of $163,800. That figure easily surpassed the $100,000 guarantee and ultimately saw the top 54 players finish in the money. Day 2 restarted with 101 remaining and Prociak held a top-20 stack. Play moved fast with the bubble bursting after the first break and the field quickly narrowing to the final few tables. Prociak beat up the late stages of the tournament taking the chip lead to the final table and never looking back.

Prociak is 35 years old donned his POY title during the 2016 season. The WPO Event 4 win grew his recorded earnings to over $800,000 and added to an impressive tournament resume that also includes a World Series of Poker gold bracelet. In addition to his poker income, Prociak is a business owner.

Last level, Robert Irby spiked the case seven on the river to double up and stay alive. A few hands later, he continued a hot streak of cards busting Sumit Mantaporn in eighth place. Irby grew his stack and now sits on 3,400,000 chips to lead the way.

Having whittled all the way down to just 170,000 chips, Thomas Jackson found himself in a tough spot. After posting an ante and paying his big blind, he claimed just 100,000 chips behind. The hand began with Toby Boas raising to 120,000 total. It was on Sumit Mantaporn in the small blind and he called. Next up was severely short stacked Jackson who shoved for 160,000 total. Boas and Mantaporn called and competed for a side pot.

Flop: — Both players checked.

Turn: — Mantaporn checked and Boas bet 245,000. Mantaporn quickly got out of the way and Boas and Jackson tabled their holdings.

100,000 chips are now play as the average stack sits just about 20 big blinds.

Despite an average stack hovering around 24 big blinds, it’s been an uneventful final table thus far. There are two extremely short stacks — Chris Whitney with 10 big blinds and Thomas Jackson with three big blinds — so we expect some movement soon.

Players are in the midst of a quick break while tournament staff colors up some of the 5,000 chips and trades them for 100,000 chips.

Rasam Mohammadian shoved from early position for about 230,000. Chip leader David Prociak called from late position and it folded to Timothy Forsberg on the button. He jammed for more and the blinds got out of the way. It was back on Prociak and he called having an opportunity to bust both Forsberg and Mohammadian.

Prociak: Forsberg: Mohammadian:

Runout:

Forsberg spiked a king on the river to bust Mohammadian 10th and win both the side and main pots in the process.

2016 SHRP Player of the Year David Prociak leads the 10-handed final table

Following Elizabeth McKane’s 11th-place bustout the final 10 players redrew to one table. It’s 2016 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Player of the Year David Prociak that leads the way with 1,900,000. Second in chips is Toby Boas with 1,710,000 while Seminole Hard Rock Tampa regular Tom Nguyen is in third with 1,600,000.

Jack McIntyre was in the big blind with and had the last of Anatoly Zharnitsky’s shortstack at risk preflop. Zharnitsky held the edge in the hand with , but a runout changed that. McIntyre paired up and Zharnitsky was eliminated in 16th place.

Fellow big stack Tom Nguyen got seated next to Anthony Dianaty and things went downhill for Dianaty. On his final hand, Dianaty held pocket nines and got it in versus Nguyen’s aces. Dianaty, who topped the counts for most of the day, went bust in 18th place earning $1,229.